Moscow is continuing its war against Ukraine in violation of the UN Charter, Japan said. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

From the fall of Shanghai and the massacre at Nanjing to the horrors of Unit 731, Japan's war on China was among the most ...

R ICHARD NIXON’S surprise trip to China to meet Mao Zedong in 1972 came to be known in Japan as a “Nixon shock”. Donald Trump’s choreographed meeting with Xi Jinping was n ...

Japan’s decision to send combat troops to the Philippines for the first time since World War II and participate in a ship-sinking drill in the South China Sea this week underscores Tokyo’s rising ...

The addition brought the total number of people laid to rest at the Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward to 371,167.

Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential understatements of all time, Emperor Hirohito told the people of Japan that “the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.” ...

On June 1, about 220 descendants of the war dead in Japan embarked on an 11-day voyage through the Taiwan Strait to the Philippines to offer prayers for relatives who died at sea during World War II. ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he says, ...

A shortage of naphtha, stemming from the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, is disrupting manufacturing and retail goods in ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japan has addressed a 69-year-old gap in its self-defense measures by creating a process that gives the Ministry of Defense control of the coast guard in the event of a war. The ...

In April 1942, sixteen American bombers launched from USS Hornet and struck Japan in one of the most daring raids of World ...